Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe User Audio Files August 14, 2019 By Sarah Frier Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according...
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition August 8, 2019 By Peter Blumberg and Joel Rosenblatt Facebook Inc. failed to undo a ruling that allows millions of its users to band together in a lawsuit accusing...
Facebook Isn’t Responsible as Terrorist Platform, Court Says July 31, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch Facebook Inc. doesn’t have to face a lawsuit by victims of Hamas attacks and their relatives who claimed that the...
Craigslist Founder, Facebook’s Ex-Security Chief Team Up Over 2020 Online Fears July 29, 2019 By Elizabeth Culliford SAN FRANCISCO — The project by Facebook Inc. former chief security officer Alex Stamos to battle online abuses has received...
Facebook Pays Record $5 Billion to Settle U.S. Privacy Claims July 24, 2019 By Ben Brody and David McLaughlin Facebook Inc. agreed to pay a record $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into years of privacy violations, a...
Google Attacked Over Limits on Internet Company Liability July 17, 2019 By Gerrit De Vynck and Rebecca Kern U.S. senators used a Congressional hearing on Tuesday to push the idea of overhauling a law that protects YouTube, Facebook...
Fake Facebook Warlord Used to Spread Malware, Researchers Say July 1, 2019 By Gwen Ackerman In one of the largest malware campaigns to exploit Facebook Inc., a suspected Libyan hacker lured tens of thousands of...
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach June 24, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of...
Advertisers Face Up to Scandal Risk But Can’t Ditch Tech Giants June 21, 2019 By Joe Mayes and Angelina Rascouet The advertising industry’s annual gathering on the French Riviera has become a recurring cycle of contrition from technology giants and...
Facebook Must Proceed With Privacy Breach Suit, Judge Rules June 3, 2019 By Andrew Harris and Daniel Stoller Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’...